When I read the Ian McKellen piece I was bowled over, I wanted to take the opportunity to show how much I care about my community.
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Last year, host Neil Patrick Harris said, “Welcome to the 87th Oscars”.
But here’s the insane thing. “Should we get him?” And people are like. Chris, you should quit’. I thought about it really hard. I though about quitting, but I realized they’re gonna have the Oscars anyway. But they’re not going to cancel the Oscars because I quit. I don’t need that. Needless to say, Kev Hart was not there.
DiCaprio had already won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild trophies for the role, which transformed the heartthrob from movies like “Titanic” and “Romeo + Juliet” into a greasy-haired 1820s fur trapper who barely speaks after the bear ripped his throat.
And on the actual awards side of things, certain films have the chance to add even more wins to their roster this year.
“Is Hollywood racist? You know, that’s a, you know, you have to go at that the right way”, he said.
Mark Ruffalo and the director of “Spotlight” have joined a group protesting sex abuse in the Catholic Church before Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony.
Wondering with mock bemusement why blacks” anger over a lack of Oscar diversity never boiled over in the 1950s or “60s like it did this year, he answered his own question, “Because we had real things to protest at the time”. If you want black people every year at the Oscars, just have black categories, like “Best Black Friend”. Because we had real things to protest at the time.
ABC ” When your grandmother is swinging from a tree, you’re not anxious about who wins best short film”, the host said in one of his boldest lines.
Also up for the directing Oscar are George Miller for “Mad Max, ” Adam McKay for “The Big Short, ” Lenny Abrahamson for “Room, ” which is about a mother and young son held captive, and Tom McCarthy for “Spotlight”. Goldberg said. “Of course a black girl would have to invent a cure to cancer before they even give her a TV movie”. Several prominent black celebrities, including actress Jada Pinkett Smith and filmmaker Spike Lee, announced plans to boycott the show. “I wasn’t invited”, he said.
I get it…it’s not fair that Will (Smith) was this good and didn’t get nominated.
“I also got to talk about something I have been obsessed with – the environment and climate change – on a platform with hundreds of millions of people watching worldwide”.
Just by getting nominated, Inarritu entered into the rare company of people, becoming the first filmmaker in over 30 years to pull off a nomination the year after winning. “What an unbelievable talent you are”, DiCaprio said of the Mexican director.
DiCaprio has been nominated in the Oscars acting categories four times including for Best Supporting Actor in 1994 for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and two years ago for Best Actor for The Wolf of Wall Street. You could ask the men more!
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Rock also mocked the #askhermore movement to query women on the red carpet about more than their outfits; the comedian joked that the only reason men are asked more is that their looks are boring. Come on! There’s no reason!
